The mayor of the doctor in knowing the plant

The mayor of the doctor in knowledge of plants, Dar Al-Gharb Al-Islami, Abu Al-Khair Al-ashbili, Muhammad Al-Arabi Al-Khattabi, study of heritage and history of sciences among Arabs and Muslims, an essential matter in the phase of transformation that the Arab nation is passing through. This is because informing its children of the scientific achievements that ancestors accomplished in the past must be a source of confidence in the souls, and an incentive to push forward on the path of scientific and technological progress that we seek to achieve. And from our heritage's duty, we must personally confront uncovering its secrets, spreading its masterpieces, and shedding light on how much it contributed to enriching knowledge and science over many centuries, after this work remained limited to Orientalists belonging to different nations. In our public and private Arab libraries, there are many valuable manuscripts and beneficial books that have not yet been studied, especially in the fields of medicine, pharmacy, and botany, which had their features, and played a major role in enriching sciences and spreading the spirit of life. Where plants and medicine met in one journey to provide useful food and effective medicine. Arabs possessed an enormous wealth of knowledge and language when they turned to nature, like other nations that preceded them, finding that the earth is full of riches, from trees, herbs, vegetables, spices, and food, so they turned to the "science of agriculture" and the study of plants. They authored many books on this subject, which are important in the fields of botany, pharmacy, medicine, and others. Their care for plant varieties stemmed from their need for both food and medicine, as well as for perfuming with fragrances, dyeing, tanning, and preparing pharmaceutical materials from roots, barks, fruits, seeds, and various herbs. Thus, Arabic dictionaries and scientific writings became rich with a large number of plant names and terms, containing the knowledge of ancient Muslim Arabs in the sciences of medicine and botany. They became a source for those who authored and wrote about plant, food, and medicinal vocabulary. Many of them include: "The Book of Plants" by Abu Hanifa Al-Dinouri (d. 282 AH - 895 AD), which was among the most comprehensive dictionaries collecting material, and the most influential in the botanical dictionaries that were written later.